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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paul Clapham" data-source="post: 3367516" data-attributes="member: 101256">I don't think it's such a bad thing to have a committee of experts who review the taxonomy of species found in an area such as North America, which roughly corresponds to the Nearctic ecozone. Makers of a world taxonomy would then consider the output of such a committee, rather than repeating their work.Which is of course what happens now. On the other hand a committee of experts who review taxonomy in a small area such as Britain is much less useful, since its work unnecessarily duplicates the work of similar committees elsewhere in the Western Palearctic, as you say. This is certainly a place for European unity -- in my opinion anyway, so I'm not sad to see the BOU TSC disappear.</blockquote>